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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 28, 2014Anderson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2014, 12:33 AM CDT for Anderson County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2014, 12:33 AM CDT (05:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2014, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Anderson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 27, 11:08 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 191 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 27, 11:48 PM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 11:48 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 27, 3:19 PM CDT, 9 hours 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
319 PM CDT SUN APR 27 2014

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-281245-
MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-
HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-
ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-
JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-NAVARRO-
FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-LIMESTONE-
LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON-
319 PM CDT SUN APR 27 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A BONHAM TO TEMPLE
LINE THROUGH 7 PM AND EAST OF A BONHAM TO CORSICANA AND
CENTERVILLE LINE DURING THE EVENING HOURS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS...BUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS
POSSIBLE IN AREAS NORTH OF I-20.

FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON...A WIND ADVISORY WILL REMAIN IN
EFFECT WEST OF A GAINESVILLE TO FORT WORTH...GATESVILLE AND
LAMPASAS LINE UNTIL 7 PM. ALSO WITHIN THIS AREA...THE STRONG WINDS
COMBINED WITH VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL RESULT IN A HIGH
DANGER OF GRASS FIRES UNTIL 7 PM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED ALONG AND EAST OF A
BONHAM TO CORSICANA TO CENTERVILLE LINE THROUGH MID EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 27, 7:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
701 PM CDT SUN APR 27 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0602 PM     HAIL             EDGEWOOD                32.70N  95.88W
04/27/2014  E2.75 INCH       VAN ZANDT          TX   PUBLIC

Local storm report, Apr 27, 7:02 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
702 PM CDT SUN APR 27 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0647 PM     HAIL             EMORY                   32.87N  95.75W
04/27/2014  E0.75 INCH       RAINS              TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PENNY SIZE HAIL IN EMORY

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 7:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
743 PM CDT SUN APR 27 2014

TXZ174-175-280115-
MILAM TX-ROBERTSON TX-
743 PM CDT SUN APR 27 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL MILAM COUNTY
  SOUTHERN ROBERTSON COUNTY

AT 743 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTH OF CALDWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
65 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE FRANKLIN AND HEARNE.

PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3068 9697 3117 9631 3115 9629 3109 9628
      3106 9624 3101 9626 3099 9623 3097 9623
      3093 9632 3082 9641 3070 9658 3072 9663
      3060 9687
TIME...MOT...LOC 0043Z 229DEG 55KT 3071 9673

82/JLD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 7:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Robertson	32 min
Apr 27, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	55 min
Apr 27, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	53 min
Apr 27, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	60 min
Apr 27, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone, Navarro	55 min
Apr 28, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	53 min
Apr 28, 12:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	60 min
Apr 28, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	68 min
Apr 28, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	61 min
Apr 28, 4:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Robertson	38 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.